Master Carpenter's Final Exam

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I think he made the 'plywood' himself. Figures, b/c three layers of solid walnut makes it very stable.

 

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The term 'Master' is hugely over-used in the UK. A guy can be a 'Master Painter', a 'Master Plasterer' or a 'Master Toilet Cleaner'. Just anything he dreams up, really. No qualifications. no exam, no certificate, no nothing. It mysteriously elevates him from being a bog-standard trader with 12 months on the job, into a mythical being who turns everything he touches into gold.

Fun fact = the term originated during the 15th and 16th centuries when cathedral-building was at its pinnnacle in Europe. The 'Master Stonemason' was the guy who oversaw the carving of critically-dimensioned stones for Gothic arches and similar, checking everything for dimensional accuracy - a kind of supervisor. Not an ordinarily-skilled guy with an exaggerated sense of his own importance and a desire to pull the wool over the eyes of gullible customers.

While the word "Meister XYZ" granted by a school after completing the final exam can be word-translated as "Master XYZ", the culturally-correct translation is "Qualified/Trained XYZ". The language issue being such trades schools do not exist much in the UK/US sphere from what I gather.

In the German (and Czech and..) high school system a formally educated kid gets given the title "Meister (of the craft)" by the school on a Diploma after completing the "Meisterprüfung" (lit. "Master's examination"). But that is an *academic* title, not actually used anywhere. Were one to request being titled such, one would be laughed-out of a jobsite/pub/etc.

The exam and resulting "title" is primarily for young (17-18 yo) kids completing their trades education and has no relation to actual position in the workforce/society, unlike the general English term "Master" (or the German term "Meister" in the same general context).

Blindly word-translating it into "Master XYZ" is just bad translation.
I have checked part of the video and believe this is intentional - a click-bait of sorts. A good catch still, but of a bit different fish.
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